Archive for February, 2007

What Is In A GPA?

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 in General | 1 Comment »

GPA or Grade Point Average is important to all students because this is the system used to quantify or measure your overall performance as a student. This is the product or the outcome after the grades you obtained in all subject per semester or annually were converted from letters to numbers. Students with high GPA […]

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Practical Tips For Incoming College Students

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 in College Studying, Studying Tips | No Comments »

College is often called the “Big School”, the place where we could learn to become professionals someday.  College life is exciting and full of adventures, a stage in our lives where we begin to experience to be independent.  College life and studying in college is far different from what we have in high school.
So I’m […]

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My Own Studying Secret

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 in Studying Tips | No Comments »

You do not need to study all the time nor harder to get impressive grades but you surely need to study smarter to earn good grades. Read this: to study smarter is to study efficiently. Yeah, this is so true. I am not that intelligent nor a book worm but I managed to maintain above […]

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Eat Enough Carbohydrates To Boost Your Brain

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 in Brain Food/Supplements | No Comments »

Eating enough amounts of carbohydrates is necessary for us to boost and power up our brain. The more we think, and the more time we spend in studying, the more we need to eat.  This is because human particularly adolescents and students need to maintain adequate levels of the brain fuel glucose in order for […]

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Learn To Be A Touch Typist

Sunday, February 11th, 2007 in Study Tools | No Comments »

Being a touch typist is really an advantage especially for students because touch typing significantly lessens the time you need to spend typing your homework, your papers or researches. And if you are a touch typist, your work would definitely error-free because you can immediately spot and correct mistakes as you type.
I know one good […]

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The Use Of Music While Studying

Monday, February 5th, 2007 in Studying/Learning Styles, Studying Tips | 2 Comments »

The issue whether the use of music while studying is good or not is inconclusive despite of so many and researches about the effect of music while people are studying. Perhaps this is because our learning capabilities are varied: some are auditory learners, while others are visual or spatial learners and so, the impacts of […]

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Chunking Technique Helps You To Remember Faster

Monday, February 5th, 2007 in Memorizing Tips | No Comments »

I stumbled upon this nice tip that gave an emphasis to the use of chucking to aid anybody in remembering series of numbers. And it is so true that memorizing series of number at once is very difficult. But by chucking those numbers in smaller parts, remembering them would be easier.
Now I know the reason […]

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Diet Soda Not Good For Your Brain

Sunday, February 4th, 2007 in Brain Food/Supplements | No Comments »

Students or anybody who are fond of drinking diet soda because of lesser chance of gaining weight should think twice before drinking another can of diet soda because new research implied that aspartame, the artificial sweetener being used in sugar-free drinks may go directly to our brain and may disrupts memory.
The study revealed that people […]

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Tips To Prevent Brain Fade

Sunday, February 4th, 2007 in Memorizing Tips, Reading Tips, Studying/Learning Styles | No Comments »

Ever heard of the term brain fade? This happens when your mind suddenly thinks blank or black and that you totally forget what you have just studied.
Brain fade is very common to people and does not only experienced by students because as we input new knowledge to our brain, it tends to put the new […]

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The Good Side Of Studying In Short Frequent Sessions

Sunday, February 4th, 2007 in College Studying, Studying Tips | No Comments »

Do you know why studying in short but frequent sessions are better than studying straight for 5 hours to 8 hours? It is because those repeatedly brief burst of concentration are similar on how our brain works. The human brain after working needs to rest to synthesize the information it gets.
And so, avoid stressing out […]

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